Published on 1 September 2023
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Capture students’ attention and engagement with lessons that lay the groundwork for a memorable school year! In this issue, students learn about art room procedures while participating in a scavenger hunt, identify key strengths and how they can use them, develop personal connections to drawing exercises through altered books, create abstract compositions during a virtual artist visit, and more.
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Early ChildhoodElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolK-12AdvocacyAssessmentChoice-BasedClassroom PracticeContemporary ArtCritique/DiscussionEquity, Diversity, and InclusionIdeationManaging The Art RoomMedia ArtsMeeting Individual NeedsSocial Emotional LearningTherapeutic PracticesCelebrationCollaborationCommunicationCommunityDesignEmotionsHistoryIdentityImaginationMessagesMindfulnessObservationPlacePlayStoriesTransformationAltered BookAssemblageCollageDrawingInstallationMixed-MediaMuralsPaintingPhotographyPrintmakingSculptureStreet/Public ArtCharcoalColored PencilsCrayonsDigitalGraphiteInk MarkersMetalsNon-TraditionalPaintPaperPapier MachéPastelsRecycled ObjectsTapeWoodMedia ArtsSketchbook / Visual Journal39 articles from this collection:
The Groundwork Issue, September 2023
Experience Art from Davis
Filled with opportunities to build critical thinking skills and choice, this brand-new middle school art curriculum for grades 7–8 is designed to help students express their ideas and feelings through meaningful art-making and see themselves as part of the learning process.
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Editor's Letter: Groundwork
Nancy Walkup, SchoolArts editor-in-chief, discusses the laying the groundwork for the school year to encourage student' attention and engagement.
Professional Development from Davis
Davis provides learning that is relevant to contemporary approaches and issues. Presented on-demand, virtually, or in-person by master teachers who are experts in the most current classroom pedagogy and the practical, discipline-specific, targeted application of research-backed content. Learn from educators who are recognized leaders with a plethora of applicable classroom successes.
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The Groundwork Issue, September 2023
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Point of View: Burning Bridges
Art educator Eric Gibbons' survey of fellow art educators identified that the key components to art education are creative expression, teaching problem solving, and using art to connect and deepen understanding of all subject areas in a public school setting.
ClipCard: Neighborhood Collage
Early childhood students create a collage composition of a neighborhood (real or imaginary).
ClipCard: One Hundred Color Challenge
Elementary student use the primary colors, black, and white to create one hundred color combinations.
ClipCard: Altered Postcards
Middle school students create a narrative artwork by altering a postcard using collage and drawing techniques.
ClipCard: Atelier Twist
High-school students create a charcoal portrait that shows the classic chiaroscuro technique and incorporates contemporary art trends.
Blick Art Materials
Visit DickBlick.com/Lesson-Plans and discover more than 500 original projects supporting National Core Arts Standards - Visual Arts. Plus, over 200 lessons can be viewed as video demonstrations with “how-to” information you won’t find anywhere else.
Managing the Art Room: Research Is Elementary
Student questioning is a critical component of traditional research that is happening in elementary art rooms everywhere. Learn how effective inquiry enhances learning and assessment in young learners.
The MIndful Studio: What Is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the state of being fully aware, receptive, and focused on the senses within the present moment. Students who integrate mindfulness into their lives can increase their focus and become rooted in the present moment.
Advocacy: Woven Together
Art educator, Matthias Krenzer, begins the school year with a collaborative mural project that involves the entire school. This year the installation was inspired by a technique using tape and paint, creating a piece that resembled a rich tapestry woven with many colored fibers.
Get Published in SchoolArts!
SchoolArts articles are written by art educators just like you! Your ideas and advice are valuable to your peers around the world! Share your successful lessons, areas of concern, and approaches to teaching art.
The Studio Series from Davis
The popular Davis Studio Series fits art teachers’ diverse instructional needs, teaching styles, and classroom configurations while encouraging students to explore their own unique styles and interests. Titles in this studio art curriculum series include: Communicating through Graphic Design, Experience Clay, Focus on Photography, Experience Printmaking, Discovering Drawing, Beginning Sculpture, Exploring Painting.
Repurposed Repoussé
Middle-school Crafts 1 students transform donated cigar boxes into keepsake containers with patterned foil reliefs.
Square Scavenger Hunt
Elementary students begin the school year with an art room scavenger hunt that covers classroom procedures and expectations. This class activity ends with a beautiful collaborative mural for the hallways.
Scribble Self-Portraits
High-school students use drawing tablets to create digital line portraits inspired by the work of artist Adam Riches.
Contemporary Art in Context: Jan Kaláb
Painter, sculptor, and street artist Jan Kaláb explores vivid color and illusionistic abstraction through multilayered compositions.
A Proven Winner
Elementary students get a virtual visit from Reggie Laurent and work alongside the artist to develop abstract shape compositions.
Alter-Ego Books
High-school students create an alter ego narrative presented in the form of an upcycled book. In the units that followed the alter-ego curriculum, students sought out themes, narratives, and meaning for the rest of the year.
Finding One's Strength
Middle-school students create an artwork showing a personal strength using media of their choosing. This art lesson promotes self-discovery and development in students.
Celebrating Inktober
Inktober is an annual art event during which artists all over the world attempt to create a new ink drawing every day in October. This challenge offers us the opportunity to engage in passionate conversations about racial justice, cancel culture, plagiarism, copyright, and more.
Tangled Shapes
Young students identify organic and geometric shapes, create shape mobiles, and collaborate to create one large, tangled mobile.
Focus In: Visual Voices
Visual Voices (VV) is a nonprofit organization based in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. VV works internationally in the field of arts-based peacebuilding, specifically focusing on connecting with emerging visual artists from communities affected by violent conflict.
The Mindful Studio from Davis
Throughout The Mindful Studio, you will discover centering practices to begin creative endeavors, mindfulness-based visual arts lessons with reflection questions, and lesson extensions to explore mindfulness in a variety of art modalities.
Tape Art Showcase
Student artwork examples using Piktotape™. Get a box of PiktoTape™ and find lesson plans and more resources at DavisArt.com/PiktoTape.
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RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel from Davis
The RGB/CMY Digital Color Wheel poster (18x24") and teacher’s guide provides a framework for teaching learners some of today’s most foundational color concepts to ensure their interaction with color on digital screens is based on understanding digital color as opposed to intuition or trial and error.
The Masters Artist Soap
The Masters Artist Soap has been used by makers, painters, artists, and crafters since 1979.
Media Arts Intensive from Davis
Get over 14 hours of professional development from wherever you are! This exciting virtual learning opportunity is the Media Arts content you have been looking for! Be inspired by 34 engaging sessions relevant to today’s classrooms. Learn at your own pace with access to all the content for one year.
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NAEA: Virtual Art Educators
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AMACO (American Art Clay Company, Inc.) continues to be a leader and innovator for ceramics in the areas of art, technology, and education. Get ideas and inspiration for your next Lesson Plan project.
Blick Art Materials
As a leading art supply company, we provide artists, educators, students, and our associates with the tools, assistance, and training needed to grow, innovate, and reach their creative potential. BLICK Art Materials is family-owned and serving artists since 1911.
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